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...“In Como recently I gave a lecture about the myth of the solitary composer in his ivory tower,” Bryars says....
...From the streets of Milan to the shores of Lake Como, a compact, smooth-headed chap in a safari jacket tracked their every footstep....
...Howard, who got married this year at a star-studded event at a villa near Italy’s Lake Como, has even dabbled in crypto art....
...That’s fine — but the price of sanctions cannot be paid by Italian families and businesses,” Salvini told supporters at Lake Como this month....
...Pierangelo Masciadri has been selling ties from his small atelier on the shores of Lake Como since the 1970s, but the pandemic has forced him to take his sales online....
...“Italy remains one of the most sought-after countries and has some very well-loved areas, such as Lake Como, Tuscany, Liguria and Sardinia,” she says....
...And if you’re using chemical cotton, you should get a tax bill.” McCartney acknowledges that her label still has room for improvement: “Plastic is hard....
...We arrived – not for the first time – after an early-morning train ride south from Zurich, with the last leg in a hire car from Como....
...“Everyone is reviewing how they live their lives,” says Bill Thomson, head of Knight Frank’s Italian operation. Demand is up from local buyers too....
...Dinner is at Bill’s restaurant: snapper with couscous washed down with a schooner of Swan’s lager....
...“All this sounds very good and sells very well but it will have a fiscal cost,” said Valeria Moy, head of México ¿cómo vamos?, a think-tank....
...“It’s not that they [the incoming government] don’t understand markets — it’s not quantum physics,” says Valeria Moy, head of México ¿Cómo Vamos?, a think-tank....
...Likewise, a brief blockade on the Italian-Swiss border brought some attention, but mainly because migrants ended up stranded near swish holiday destination Lake Como....
...Viridiana Ríos, head of think-tank México ¿cómo vamos?, says the growth in consumption was “not being reflected whatsoever in a reduction of poverty”....
...A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance, by Claudio Pavone, Verso, RRP£35/$55, 864 pages It is a strange kind of fighting force whose soldiers have names like Ajax, Bill, D’Artagnan and Ivan; Scipio...
...I realise I am still hungry – my tuna tartare was not that filling – but when he brought the bill, the waiter also made off with the uneaten cookies....
...Bogotá Como Vamos (“Bogotá, how are we doing”) is a groundbreaking citizen accountability scheme to monitor governments, which launched in Colombia’s capital city 12 years ago....
...Participants in Cernobbio on Lake Como were unanimous in expressing frustration at the government’s failure to agree austerity measures and at the confusion sown in markets....
...The famous Villa Cipressi, with its eponymous garden, is perched above Lake Como. So your implicit observation that cypresses are only found in Tuscany is simply wrong....
...Regardless, a spokesman for the Spanish authorities told Bloomberg that they will simply resubmit the bills that have been appealed, which make up between 200 and 300 million euros....
...The mystery deepened on Thursday as an Italian blog quoted Colonel Rodolfo Mecarelli of the Como provincial finance police as saying the two men had been released....
...Extras, such as spa treatments, don’t come tumbling on to your end-of-stay bill with a villa. And most of the time, food is charged at market prices....
...Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and the early Elvis Presley recorded with their touring bands, and their records captured the same energetic sounds they presented on stage....
...Compared with the orchestral effects achieved by Albee’s finest full-length works, this double bill, cleanly staged by Pam MacKinnon, is much more of a chamber programme....
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